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Show "DAYLIGHT" (southbound) ONLY 12 HOURS Good Morning! Leave Good Evening ! Arrive SAN FRANCISCO 7.45 a.m. LOS ANGELES 7.45 p.m. California by daylight! Twelve delightful hours of restful entertainment. Following path of the Mission Padres along San Francisco Bay, through beautiful live-oak-dotted foothills of San Francisco's suburban towns, through fruitful Santa Clara and Pajaro valleys; following Salinas River for a hundred miles, with Santa Lucia Mountains on the west. A scenic ride through and over Santa Lucia i Mountains, followed, in sharp contrast, by a hundred-mile ride along the shore of Pacific Ocean; through alluring Santa Barbara and environs and the Chatsworth hills to Los Angeles. The "Daylight" is unique in equipment and service. Restful club car for smokers. New steel coaches, with comfortable, high- backed seats. Free parlor observation car, with a compartment for smoking. No extra charge for any seat on the train. Instead of a la carte service in the dining car, passengers on the Daylight are now offered a fine five-course luncheon or dinner, served table d'hote or "family style." This affords the maximum in good service and food-soup, fish, entree or meat course with two vegetables, salad, dessert, and tea, coffee or milk-at the popular price of $1 a meal. A la carte service in the dining car for breakfast only. Dining car meal hours: Breakfast-from leaving time, 7.45 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.; Luncheon-12 m. to 2.00 p.m.; Dinner-5 p.m. to time of arrival, 7.45 p.m. For those who wish only light refreshments, such as sandwiches, boiled eggs, baked beans, spaghetti, tamales, fruit, beverages, the All-Day Lunch Car, cafeteria-style service, will be available at all hours of the trip. The "Daylight" offers the same alternative service to be found in first class modern hotels-the dining car corresponds to , the main dining room and the All-Day Lunch Car to the Tea Room or Coffee Shop. Everything needed for comfort and ease is found on this train and the price of regular train ticket covers all expenses, except meals. Only through passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles are i carried and no stops are made except for operating purposes, insuring a comfortable trip. Another train-"Shore Line"-makes the trip by day, leaving San Francisco at 8.00 a.m., arriving Los Angeles at 10.45 p.m. This train carries coaches, parlor car and diner, and stops at i ntermediate points. For list of other trains see last page. F. S. McGinnis, Passenger Traffic Manager, San Francisco, Cal. Miles from San Francisco No. 72 Daylight No. 78 Shore Line STATIONS Day- Shore Points of Interest 0 SAN FRANCISCO 7 45 am 8 00 am From Mission style station 3d & Townsend Station cor. 3d and Townsend Sts. (Elevation 6 feet) Through industrial and manu- Population, 730,000. facturing district. Line fol- Breakfast is being lows shore line of San Fran- served in the Dining Car. cisco Bay south to Redwood City, 25 miles. 5 BAYSHORE 7 54 am 8 09 am Bernal Heights to right; (Elevation 15 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Freight Yards and Shops. 9 SOUTH SAN 8 00 am 8 14 am Important industrial dis- FRANCISCO. . (no stop) (no stop) trict. (Elevation 11 feet) Population 7,200. 11 SAN BRUNO 8 02 am 8 17 am Junction with line from (Elevation 20 feet) (no stop) (no stop) S. F. via Colma. Tanforan Population, 2,100. Race Track to right. Begin- ning of suburban district.. MILLBRAE 8 05 am 8 21am Porcelain Works to left. (Elevation 7 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Model dairy to right. BROADWAY 8 07 am 8 23 am Northern limits of Bur- elevation 24 feet) (no stop) (no stop) lingame. Beautiful home district. BURLINGAME. . . 8 09 am 8 24 am East and south of Bur- elevation 24 feet) (no stop) (no stop) lingame is Hillsboro. Splendid Population, 11,000. country club, polo fields and golf links. 18 SAN MATEO 8 10 am 8 25 am San Mateo has the same (Elevation 20 feet) (no stop) (no stop) class of suburban homes and Population, 11,000. estates as Burlingame. At tractive suburban district. Nurseries on right. 20 BERESFORD. ... 8 13 am 8 28 am On right in distance, San (Elevation 20 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Mateo County Hospital, Country Club and Golf Course. BELMONT 8 15 am 8 29 am Beautifully wooded estates (Elevation 21 feet) (no stop) (no stop) being subdivided for suburban homes. SAN CARLOS 8 17 am 8 32 am Suburban homes and gar- (no stop) (no stop) dens. Fine view of hills and oak trees on right. 25 REDWOOD CITY 8 20 am 8 34 am Attractive residence city. (Elevation 7 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Cement Works, on left, using Population, 8,000. oyster shells as a base. Just south of Redwood is rail line to Newark via Dumbarton Bridge across San Francisco Bay. Miles from San Francisco Stations No. 72 Daylight No. 78 Shore Line Points of Interest ATHERTON 8 22 am 8 37 am Suburban homes in beau- Population, 1,500. (no stop) (no stop) tiful live-oak park. MENLO PARK... 8 24 am 8 38 am Old estates midst groves (Elevation 61 feet) (no stop) (no stop) of beautiful live-oaks. Population, 3,000. Midway between Menlo Park and Palo Alto is San Breakfast is being Francisquito Creek. On south served in the Dining Car. bank is a tall tree for which Palo Alto was named. (Palo Alto, Spanish for High Tree.) PALO ALTO 8 25 am 8 39 am To right is "Palm Drive" (Elevation 57 feet) (no stop) (no stop) leading to Leland Stanford, Jr. Population, 10,000. University, in 9,000 acre campus. To left, business and residence sections of town. Junction Peninsular Railway to Los Altos and Los Gatos. Between Palo Alto and Mayfield to north and west is a glimpse of University buildings. 32 MAYFIELD 8 28 am 8 42 am Junction with Santa Cruz (Elevation 25 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Mountain Division via Los Population, 2,500. Altos, to Los Gatos, Big Trees and Santa Cruz on Monterey Bay. 36 MOUNTAIN 8 33 am 8 47 am Prune, apricot, peach and VIEW (no stop) (no stop) cherry orchards. (Elevation 76 feet) 39 SUNNYVALE 8 36 am 8 51am Industrial and fruit ship- (Elevation 93 feet) (no stop) (no stop) ping point. 44 SANTA CLARA . . 8 43 am 8 56 am To right, Santa Clara Mis- (Elevation 70 feet) (no stop) (no stop) sion, founded 1777, also Santa Population, 6,000. Clara College. Fruit packing plants. Connections with branch lines to Santa Cruz Mountains, Oakland, Niles and San Joaquin Valley points via Tracy. 47 SAN JOSE 8 47 am 9 05 am Largest city in Santa Clara (pronouncedSan Ho-say) (no stop) (STOP) Valley. First Pueblo in tali- (Elevation 85 feet) fomia, established 1777- Population, 58,256. Just after leaving passenger No. 72--Have you station, on left are buildings had your breakfast? The ' of State Normal School. Dining Car and All-Day , Lunch Car are serving. Leaving city, to left, Lick Observatory on summit of No. 78.-The Dining Mt. Hamilton. Car is serving breakfast. Miles from San Francisco Stations No. 72 Daylight No. 78 Shore Line Points of Interest 59 COYOTE. ....... 9 11 am 9 29 am Prune, apricot and peach (Elevation 248 feet) (no stop) (no stop) orchards, vineyards and seed farms. 67 MORGANHILL . . 9 20 am 9 38 am Large hill to right is El (Elevation 341 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Toro. (Spanish for bull.) Population, 1,000. 77 GILROY 9 32 am 9 53 am Center of rich agricultural (Elevation 190 feet) (no stop) (STOP) and deciduous fruit section. Population, 3,500. Canning and packing houses. No.72.-TheAll-Day Gilroy Hot Springs, 14 miles Lunch Car is serving at east. Junction for Hollister popular prices. and Tres Pinos branch. 83 SARGENT 9 41 am 10 02 am Five miles to left is Mission (Elevation 134 feet) (no stop) (no stop) San Juan Bautista, founded 1797- San Juan Valley to left-orchards, seeds, sugar beets and grain. 88 CHITTENDEN... 9 49 am 10 10 am Mineral Springs. Pajaro (Elevation 123 feet) (no stop) (no stop) (Pa-ha-ro) River to left. 91 AROMAS 9 54 am 10 17 am Deciduous orchards. Part (Elevation 92 feet) (no stop) (no stop) of Pajaro Valley. 96 WATSONVILLE Junction for Watsonville, JUNCTION 10 06 am 10 40 am Santa Cruz and Big Trees. (Elevation 19 feet) (operating (STOP) Important apple, berry and stop) lettuce producing section. 102 ELKHORN 10 16 am 10 48 am On Elkhorn Slough, arm of (Elevation 2 feet) (no stop) (no stop) Monterey Bay. Shooting Club to right. 106 DEL MONTE Junction for Del Monte JUNCTION. ... 10 19 am 11 01 am and Hotel Del Monte; Mon- (Elevation 16 feet) (no stop) (STOP) terey, first capital of Califor- No. 72. Lunch Car nia (1770 to 1849), Pacific is open all day. Sand- Grove and Asilomar, all on wiches and short orders Monterey Bay; also for Peb- at popular prices. ble Beach, Carmel-by-the-Sea and Carmel Mission, on Carmel Bay. 114 SALINAS 10 30 am 11 17 am Heart of dairy and farming (Elevation 19 feet) (no stop) (STOP) region. An annual rodeo is Population, 6,250. held at Salinas. Four miles south to right is Spreckels Sugar Refinery. From here Salinas River is followed for 112 miles. '25 CHUALAR 10 44 am 11 36 am Dairying, vegetables and (Elevation 101 feet) (no stop) (STOP) grain. Coast Range is seen to west. Miles from San Francisco Stations No. 72 Daylight No. 78 Shore Line Points of Interest 135 GONZALES 10 51 am 11 47 am Dairy farming. To right, (Elevation 125 feet) (no stop) (STOP) large condensed milk plant and attractive Alpine Inn. 140 SOLED AD 11 02 am 12 01 pm 8 miles west is Soledad (Elevation 180 feet) (no stop) (STOP) Mission, founded 1791; to No. 78.-Luncheon is left, 12 miles east, is Pinnacles now being served in the National Monument; Paraiso Diner, moderate prices, Hot Springs to west are tempting food. reached by auto. 148 METZ 11 13 am 12 14 pm Stock and grain ranches (Elevation 231 feet) (no stop) (STOP) and dairy farms. 160 KING CITY 11 27 am 12 35 pm Southwest (26 miles) Mis- (Elevation 330 feet) (no stop) (STOP) sion San Antonio de Padua, Population, 1,400. founded 1771. To right Santa Lucia Mountains. 179 SAN ARDO 1150 am 1 06 pm Dairying-cattle-grain. (Elevation 452 feet) (no stop) (STOP) 203 SAN MIGUEL.... 12 19 pm 1 45 pm to right- near track (Elevation 614 feet) (no stop) (STOP) a.f/ mlle fU „ J Population, 600. tion) Mission San Miguel, No 72.-Family style founded 1797. To left re- Luncheon is now being ™i,ns f walls of compound served in the Diner bu.lt for protection against price $1. Indlans" 212 PASO ROBLES 12 31 pm 2 01 pm Just before reaching Paso HOT SPRINGS, (no stop) (STOP) Robles to right are mud baths (Elevation 720 feet) connected with Hotel Paso Del Robles Population, 3,800. located in the No 72.-Have you center of Paso Robles. The tried the All-Day Lunch hot springs are in the hotel. car? District noted for its apple and almond culture. 218 TEMPLETON.... 12 38 pm 212 pm Salinas River rises in Santa Lucia Mountains, flows the length of Salinas Valley (Elevation 772 feet) (no stop) (flag stop) emptying into Monterey Bay. 224 AT ASCADERO... 12 50 pm 2 20 pm cadero Estates about forty (Elevation 849 feet) (no stop) (STOP) square miles founded 1913. Population, 2,000. Agricultural, industrial and residential district. Center of poultry district. Noted for peaches and other fruits. 232 SANTA MARGA- 1 03 pm 2 44 pm RITA (no stop) (STOP) South end of Salinas Valley. (Elevation 995 feet) From here line ascends Santa No. 72.-Five-course Lucia Mountains, 1,500 feet luncheon is being served at summit. The grade is con- in Dining Car, price $1. quered by a succession _ of loops. "Horseshoe Curve" is notable. |
